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Libra Esoterica

Illustrations of masonry

by William Preston & George Oliver

  • First published:
  • 18th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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The universal masonic library, a republication, in thirty volumes, of all the standard publications in masonry designed for the libraries of masonic bodies and inviduals…volume III embodying Preston's illustrations of masonry

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Initiatory orders and secret societies and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Initiatory orders and secret societies

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Freemasonry”. Retained metadata contains “Freemasonry” in the subject metadata.

    • “Freemasonry”· via Internet Archive
    • “Freemasonry”· via Open Library
    • “Freemasonry”· in subject
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library matched “Mythologie”.

    • “Mythologie”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 10 editions; 3 cataloged here.

Bavarian State Library digitized rare-book edition

Digitized image count: 452; Extent: XXIV, 420 S.; Shelfmark: H.g.hum. 442 g

1796London : Wilkie; WilkieEnglish—Public iiif reader

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1855JNO. W. Leonard; JNO. W. Leonard & Co.English—Public

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1867Masonic Pub. and Manufacturing Co.; New York, N.Y. : Masonic Pub. and Manufacturing Co.English—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • B3Kat identifier: BV001664400
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: H.g.hum. 442 g
  • Contributing institution: Brock University
  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Digitization license: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
  • Digitization sponsor: Brock University - University of Toronto Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Holding institution or provenance: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: toronto
  • Open Library reports 10 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Publication place: London
  • Scanner: rich2
  • Scanner: scribe17.toronto.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL17015462W
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